I have received reports that the Soo Line beanery in Enderlin, ND (former divison point) has fallen to the wreaking ball due to a nearby grain elevator's expansion. The bulding was constructed in the late 1890s and has used as a trancrew registry/locker room for about the lat 20 years.

See link to photo and legend in FLIMSIES.

kalbran1@san.rr.com

speaking of the Soo Line; the Canadian Museum of rail Travel, Cranbrook, BC has just moved to larger quarters in the town. And well they might!

They are now restoring a train of the CPR/Soo Lines from 1907. A pair of wooden cars are now on display.

What might be some sort of a record for the best preserved car body is the Cuzen of 1907. The parlor car was retired in 1933 to a lakeshore site
in Wisconsin. But when acquired by the museum it still had woodwork and panaling, art glass and windows,furniture and carpeting.

The color photos show many details of before and after restoration work.

The museum's large well illustrated web site is www.crowsnest,bc.ca/soospokane/index,hmtl

Perhaps some of you with a higher level of computer knowledge than I, can put something up about the museum.

ted_miles@nps.gov

> speaking of the Soo Line; the Canadian
> Museum of rail Travel, Cranbrook, BC has
> just moved to larger quarters in the town.
> And well they might!

> They are now restoring a train of the
> CPR/Soo Lines from 1907. A pair of wooden
> cars are now on display.

> What might be some sort of a record for the
> best preserved car body is the Cuzen of
> 1907. The parlor car was retired in 1933 to
> a lakeshore site
> in Wisconsin. But when acquired by the
> museum it still had woodwork and panaling,
> art glass and windows,furniture and
> carpeting.

> The color photos show many details of before
> and after restoration work.

> The museum's large well illustrated web site
> is www.crowsnest,bc.ca/soospokane/index,hmtl

> Perhaps some of you with a higher level of
> computer knowledge than I, can put something
> up about the museum.

Ted,
Interesting timing in your post. A co-worker was chasing the Royal Canadian passenger train in the area over the weekend and was able to spend some time visiting the facility. From what I understand they are attempting to recreate three or four complete vintage train sets. They have also completely reconstructed a vintage hotel dining room and facilities. Gosh, I wish Trains magazine would report on this sort of thing instead of carrots!
Don C.

old_fxrs@msn.com

Don,

Glad you found the note interesting. Go and take a look at their web site. Information on all the train sets and the railroad hotel is there.

and Ib elieve that this is the group that got a CPR 4-4-4 steam engine from Steamtown NRS.

Ted

ted_miles@nps.gov

Just got lost in their site for awhile ... watch the video, it's worth it. Gotta be one of the best sites around.


lamontdc@adelphia.net

> Just got lost in their site for awhile ...
> watch the video, it's worth it. Gotta be one
> of the best sites around.

Ted,
I think that you are correct about the 4-4-4. I understand that they have a pair of F units and a pair of FPAs. And obviously they have a whole lot of vision.

Don C.

old_fxrs@msn.com

> Ted,
> I think that you are correct about the
> 4-4-4. I understand that they have a pair of
> F units and a pair of FPAs. And obviously
> they have a whole lot of vision.

> Don C.

I love this group and what they are doing so much that I use their director's comments below on my return email:

"Almost without exception the Locomotive is given the primary focus in railway museums. The rolling stock (freight and passenger) is too often considered secondary, when in fact it was the rolling stock that moved the people and the goods that, in turn, earned the revenue to pay the costs, including the cost of locomotive. Locomotives do not exist on their own, and we really have to balance our preservation of railway history, or future generations may think that trains only consisted of locomotives and cabooses."
Garry Anderson, Executive Director, Canadian Museum of Rail Travel

Wow, a museum which puts rolling stock preservation ahead of (or at least on par with)locomotive preservation. A novel idea, no?!

TJG

Port Huron Museum

tjgaffney@phmuseum.org